1792 in Wales

Updated on Jan 28, 2024

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - vacant

21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.

June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.

Bodnant House is built.

Completion of the Merthyr to Pontypridd section of the Glamorganshire Canal.

Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.

David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth

Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.

Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings

23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)

5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)

11 November - Mary Anne Evans (d. 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli

20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)

date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)

10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78

2 May - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer, 60

17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?

27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48

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